Examples of oppression

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If a law to secure collective title were passed and widely applied, she contended, it would constitute an act of oppression.
He has known so much oppression that he either accepts the status quo without question or else he breaks forth in revolutionary activities.
Focusing on social conflict with men rather than intrapsychic contradictions in women, they deal with social oppression, as it were, rather than psychic repression.
They would be more sensitive to the vagaries of oppression in the work regime and social discipline of their holdings, and could calibrate appropriate responses.
Of late, however, the biopolitical project has turned ' pernicious ' and has become a tool of oppression.
At any rate, they established neither a threshold of oppression nor a procedure to oust a derelict leader.
Coherence is lost by calling upon the coercive power of the state to protect against verbal oppression, thereby subordinating and marginalizing some members of society.
Why should the theoretical confusion of 'being free' with 'feeling free' carry with it the possibility of justifying oppression?
Political factionalism and the oppression of the poor by moneyleaders, for example, absorbed at least as much of his attention.
Nevertheless, the detested forms of human oppression are not enough, so to speak.
With a dense population, the people are freer from the oppression of the ruling elite since the rulers have more difficulty keeping them under surveillance.
The combination of oppression and war, over several generations, can become a powerful explosive.
They are discriminated in every field and the police oppression is making the whole community mutinous.
Colonialism was characterized by white supremacy (segregation), exploitation, oppression and vindictiveness.
Although he has copious material to illustrate the cruelties and oppression of the colonial cotton growing system, this is not the principal theme.
Challenging these forms of oppression is extremely important : people are also bodies.
The colonial army was an instrument of oppression, but it also kept peace and seemed to have its place in the new order of things.
Their narratives of the time are accounts of oppression and exploitation but also of order and safety.
He is clearly exasperated by the dictator's failure to heed the hardships which catalysed the revolt and by the subsequent oppression.
Power became much less about coercion and oppression and more about normalising and regulating bodies.
History does not just create its own means of oppression.
Then, together, they stage a performance that addresses the community's concerns, identifying oppression and its sources, using the concepts 'oppressors' and 'oppressed'.
Will he take responsibility for ridding the world of oppression?
According to this approach, drug addiction was a general consequence of oppression and a manifestation of the desperate situation for those who are worst off.
Here he not only evokes a racialized symbol of oppression but also firmly asserts his gender identity.
In extreme cases of oppression "the right or even the duty of insurrection and regicide" was acknowledged.
The opera begins with them in a state of oppression, and through its dramatic action it brings about their deliverance.
Power and freedom, oppression and resistance, draw from the same well and often live in the same texts and performances.
Autonomy can protect not only privilege but oppression and exploitation too.
Where did this singular connection between nostalgia, oppression, and atmospheric pressure come from?
Because of their relative economic power, northerners were perceived not only as beneficiaries of the federal government, but also as agents of oppression.
Marxian critics have read the expanding consumer marketplace as merely another arena for sexist oppression, in many ways worse than the private sphere.
Neither skin colour nor the common experience of racial oppression is enough to bridge this gulf.
Periods of relative tolerance alternated with periods of increased prosecution and oppression of illicit workers.
Generally it was some tale of oppression, some request for aid.
By stressing the social nature of disability, it holds open the possibility that social reform can eliminate the oppression experienced by disabled people.
Of course, many of the problems in gender-based oppression are taking biological issues to be relevant when they are not.
Inequalities properly characterized as relations of exploitation, domination, and oppression are always unjust, again whether domestic or global.
There are three : women's agency within a patriarchal society, the variable experiences of women in such a society, or straightforward patriarchal oppression.
Juries are a citizen's final protection against state oppression through jurors' ability to "nullify" the law.
Liberalism could be represented as a convenient cover for an underlying reality of oppression and domination.
He sees shame as closely associated to oppression, and depicts its development as a two-step process.
Pitting oppressed groups against each other is counterproductive when the cure for oppression is to empower the people at the bottom.
Feminism means at a minimum an affirmation that women of all groups are oppressed and that this oppression is wrong.
They are those with a history of injustice or oppression.
Furthermore, anti-oppressive education is premised on the notion that many commonsense ways of reforming education actually mask the oppressions that need to be challenged.
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